Hi,
on 2/27/2004 11:41 PM Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:53, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I learned that the LSSerializer should generate an encoding declaration
>>of "UTF-16" if serializing a whole DOM document to a DOMString via
>>LSSerializer.writeToString.
>
>
> Note that this depends on the value of the xml-declaration parameter.
>
>
>>So just to have it black on white: does this imply the encoding
>>declaration *has to* be existent and *has to* state "UTF-16", if parsing
>>with LSParser.parse with an input.stringData holding a XML document -
>>otherwise an error would be reported?
>
>
> We added the following on LSInput.characterStream (modulo the
> "<code>stringData</code>") and LSInput.stringData:
> [[
> It is not a requirement to have an XML declaration when using
> <code>stringData</code>. If an XML declaration is present, the value of
> the encoding attribute will be ignored.
> ]]
> Since the document is already represent as characters, there is no need
> for encoding information anymore.
Ignored to what extent? Does it affect Document.xmlEncoding? Should no
error be raised if it is not supported or incorrect? Or does *ignored*
mean that one can declare whatever encoding - e.g. "XYZ-1972" - without
*any* effect?
Greetings,
Kasimier